“I should remind Sophie Doucet that building and maintaining the Concentration Camps of Auschwitz also provided livelihoods, but this hardly made the Camps warranted,” Morrissey opined.

British singer Morrissey

Reached for comment by Canada.com, the minister’s spokesperson wrote that Canada’s “Government has been steadfast in its support for our Canadian sealers and the communities where they live.”

“Mr. Morrissey’s disrespect for all those who have been affected by the Holocaust won’t change our position,”Doucet added.

Canada’s Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Gail Shea

The feud began on April 19 when the singer, who hasn’t toured Canada since 2006 as a form of protest, took aim at the country’s sanction of the annual seal hunt.

“Canada is a beautiful country, and the people of Canada are good people,” he wrote. “But good people are often ineffectual. Internationally, Canada’s sorry image is due entirely to its seal slaughter — which is greedy and barbaric, and it is dismaying to witness such ignorance in 2014.”